Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (224 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 May 2011 00:07:14 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Monday 23 May 2011 23:35:04 Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > On Monday, May 23, 2011 01:25:19 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > On Monday 23 May 2011 19:36:30 jdd wrote:
> > > > > > > This discussion is finished AFAIK
> > > >
> > > > sorry, I was misleaded byt the subject
> > > >
> > > > > I created a piratepad, please go in and help describe OBS for the
> > > > > tens of thousands of users who visit build.opensuse.org and
> > > > > openbuildservice.org!!!
> > > > >
> > > > > http://piratepad.net/teolsuX2Op
> > > >
> > > > I don't know how to insert what I think there.
> > > >
> > > > There are two point of view importants (at least)
> > > >
> > > > 1) the programmer point of view. I'm noit a programmer, so I let this
> > > > to your appreciation
> > > >
> > > > 2) the user pont of view. For the user tha OBS is a library of
> > > > programs ready to install and run. The problem so far is that one
> > > > have to know the exact program name to ba able to search for it
> > > > (AFAIK). So the work flow for an user is to search google for the
> > > > application that fits his needs then search OBS to find it's
> > > > distribution version
> > >
> > > Yup, that is an issue. And until that is fixed, I don't think we should
> > > write the text towards users... which solves the problem, for now ;-)
> > >
> > > The site can be changed anytime later on. Once OBS gets a good way of
> > > searching and downloading packages, we can update the text.
> > >
> > > > jdd
> >
> > The current workflow seriously needs to be fixed.
>
> true or not, not really on-topic here, we (as in the marketing team) won't
> be fixing it ;-)

PS feel free to kick adrian in the balls if you have issues, but if you take 
that litterally I recommend you kick hard to make sure he can't come after you 
;-)

Serious, workflow things need fixing indeed, but what he needs is CONCRETE 
SUGGESTIONS. Not of the type "fix it" or even "this and this doesn't make 
sense" but "this works like this now. It makes more sense if it would work 
like this. See a mock up I made".

The coding doesn't take much time - it is the thinking about what the best 
solution is that takes a lot of time. And that exactly is what people could 
help with if they were willing to put in a little more thought.

;-)